Chin up little guy…..you only have another 6 1/2 years to go!!
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trump’s deplorables have to be the most in denial, delusional group of people this side of 1940s germany. within 6.5 years, he’ll in be in jail or will have already been forced to resign. call the mueller investigation fake or a witch hunt or whatever the phrase du jour is, but at the very least, trump’s guilty of financial crimes.

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By: TheDPR https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6272471
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:45:30 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6272471What really hurts the league about this issue is that they try to play both sides and end up pleasing no one. A bunch of people last year claimed to stop watching because players were allowed to kneel. A bunch of people this year have claimed they’ll stop watching because now players are required to stand, plus a bunch more people still aren’t satisfied because players are allowed to remain in the locker room if they choose. The NFL should have taken a strong stand on one side or the other, only disgruntled a portion of their fans, and then stuck with it while the remaining fans supported them and the disgruntled fans got over it. They screwed it up like they usually do, no matter what side of the anthem debate you’re on.
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By: dejc421 https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6272182
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:43:23 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6272182Lived in Texas over 40 years and seems like high school football is always #1 … and I still don’t get it.
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By: endtimesparty https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6272081
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 22:49:15 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6272081You think it has anything to do with the fact the Cowboys haven’t been relevant in decades?
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By: ak185 https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6272065
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 22:35:08 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6272065^^Just wanted to add that, for the record, I like NFL ball better than college ball, but the difference in the level that people appreciate them down here is undeniable. And I will admit that while the NFL is my first choice, the thrill of seeing your college team succeed has a more personal element than your professional team, and that’s a thing a lot of people resonate with that makes football so intense for them.
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By: OldTime Football https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6272056
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 22:23:10 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6272056No surprise, has anyone seen the size of the high school stadiums, or, college stadiums? Much more popular than the pros!
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By: alonestartexan https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6272002
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:48:13 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6272002I live in Texas (Houston) the NFL is 3rd for me, College and High School is 1-2. The CFL is really growing on me too, so the NFL could be 4th soon.
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By: skwackquackwoof https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271995
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:43:57 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271995My disgust with the league is well documented, and has nothing to do with politics. The constant rule changes and the renewal of Goodell’s contract are the things that irk me the most.
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By: Paul Byvtary https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271990
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:42:15 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271990“I view the NFL as unfavorable. With the combination of concussions, rule changes, Goodell, awful officiating, and trashy players, it’s hard not to. However, I do also watch the games, like most folks here in Texas do…”

I watch too but nowhere near as much as just a couple years ago and I will never ever go to a game again. Also no longer buy any NFL gear, not that I bought a lot but I have.

I actually supported the players kneeling the weekend immediately after his first proclamation. Players giving short shrift to outside-the-league influences is nothing new, and was hilarious this time around as a big middle finger to denied-a-team-by-the-NFL Trump.

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By: toddm6d https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271910
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:55:11 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271910The NFL has abandoned the game of football much like the WWE abandoned the art of pro-wrestling.

Gone is the sanctity of the “sport,” replaced by “sports entertainment.”

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By: rcali https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271885
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:34:58 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271885Honestly can’t wait for the updates from this year’s National Protest League. Ratings will be down yet again and the articles here should be entertaining.
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By: stubborndata https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271876
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:32:41 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271876Texas is a caricature of the US, just like the cowboys are a caricature of the NFL
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By: dbfan4ever https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271791
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:33:22 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271791Not surprising Texan conservatives, like me, don’t appreciate it when anyone disrespects our great national anthem!
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By: xavier179 https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271707
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:43:46 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271707davemishar, kind of hard to bring back Pete Rozelle seeing he has been dead for awhile.
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By: guillotine06 https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271683
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:36:35 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271683Nobody is taking into consideration that a lot of the people in the poll may be Cowboys fans and feel like the NFL railroaded Ezekiel Elliott?
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By: officialgame https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271672
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:34:20 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271672A direct result of Jerry Jones owning the Cowboys and polluting the sport.
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By: mediasloppy https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271653
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:25:34 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271653I find some irony in how the NFL is too political while at the same time I’m also tired of how political this place has become.
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By: thudsp https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271601
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:01:23 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271601Most conservative people wont yell and scream publicly about issues like kneeling, they just quit spending money on game tickets, NFL merchandise and some quit watching. I’ll bet most people know someone like this. When politics made its way into the NFL it signed its own death warrant.
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By: 904primetime https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271564
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:44:53 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-62715641300 people is laughable for a survey … Yet pretty sure the Texans and Cowboys are close to selling out most games. It’s where we are in society everybody has to be upset about something… The protest is going to have very little effect on true football fans(Jacksonville Jaguars sold 10.000+ new season ticket a NAVY town). What going to effect teams is poor performance its way too expensive to go to a game and watch your team play like trash
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By: craigkintexas https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271539
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:36:07 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271539We Texans dig football. Allen High School Stadium cost was $60,000,000.00. The stadium in Katy, Texas cost a little over $70 million, but that serves 7 schools. We don’t cater to hoodlums though.
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By: willycents https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271523
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:30:34 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271523So the poll showed that fans are split about evenly in their overall opinion. Just like we are politically and every other way.
This poll was in Texas, a red state. Take the same poll in Wyoming and the results will be even more pronounced against the NFL.
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By: richndc https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271510
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:27:06 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271510Something else that people can argue about. Here–I grew up in Texas, in the country, the REAL country, not the Toby Keith fake accent crap with shiny trucks and over-starched Wranglers. I also worked at the Gallup Institute in Austin (headquarters) doing poll research, the no. 1 data gathering institute in the world, or they used to be. Here is what I KNOW. Your average Texan does not give a crap about polls. The working person does not care, or have time for it. Most people like football, but for the NFL they are sick of more than just the political crap. It’s the crappy product, the lack of honor in the game, the overpaid babies, the fact that most of these players are far from real role models, and so much else. The Cowboys will still make their $$, not to worry, and so little of this has to do with Trump and the anthem. Add to that the upcoming generations that care nothing about competitive sports, and you have the dying shield.
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By: dtroxallday https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271495
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:16:49 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271495bondlake says:
June 27, 2018 at 11:55 am
This does not come as a surprise.

The real shocker will be when the general public becomes fed up with taxpayer funding of stadiums, continuing anthem protests
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It’s sad how many people still just can’t seem to understand why the players are protesting. I really don’t understand why this is simply beyond some peoples ability to comprehend the simplest things.

You’re entirely correct. They have the most corrupt sports commissioner in modern American sports history. The fake scandals he manufactures. The softening of the game with so many rules changes no one knows them all now, not even the refs or most of the coaches paid millions to know ever last one. Immature players and lots of bad behavior off the field while not making the greatest possible effort on it. Billionaires extorting stadiums from taxpayers. Probably 1/3 of the owners that only care about cashing their TV checks and make zero effort to put a winning product on the field.

I’m sure there are other issues but the league under Goodell’s “guidance” seems to have screwed up in pretty much every way they possibly could have.

Chin up little guy…..you only have another 6 1/2 years to go!!
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trump’s deplorables have to be the most in denial, delusional group of people this side of 1940s germany. within 6.5 years, he’ll in be in jail or will have already been forced to resign. call the mueller investigation fake or a witch hunt or whatever the phrase du jour is, but at the very least, trump’s guilty of financial crimes.

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By: mogogo1 https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271438
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:51:24 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271438“They should stop asking old, white, lower-class people about the NFL and ask the young adults. I bet you get a completely different result.”
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You mean like the young adults who are still in college (or just out) who cheer on UT, A&M, etc. every Saturday? Yeah, bet the results would be even worse with that group.

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By: truths4all https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271433
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:50:10 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271433The protesting players have finally overstepped the boundaries their limited brains should have told them to avoid, preferring to listen to those whose agendas could care less about the players’ future earnings and careers and most about pushing the Liberals’ Hate America Agenda.

If, after some years with no cojones or leadership from Goodell, it will be interesting and tragic to see the NFL become another version of the Arena League and the XFL, flooding the fast food market with ex-players who did not qualify for a decent NFL pension and regretting their woeful academic accomplishments courtesy of the college football programs designed to exploit them and make ga-zillions for the exploitative education system who will distain their castoffs who no longer can donate mighty big dollars back to their schools who cared nothing about the players future well-being.

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By: streetyson https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/06/27/poll-shows-nfl-not-as-popular-in-texas-as-football-in-general/#comment-6271427
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:47:18 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2537274#comment-6271427“Trump made this an issue,” said professor Daron Shaw, co-director of the poll. “He understood that making this about the national anthem was good politically …it has hurt the NFL ..polarized politically and polarized racially.”
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Nope. The players had already started making it an issue in 2016 and about politics and race. Trump just much later chimed in with the already fully developed chorus from many fans who were feeling it was about the anthem before Trump also said it. That the pollster displays such clear bias shows the poll is all a load of agenda-driven BS.
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